Correspondence: James O'Shaughnessy to H.H. Gunning

Correspondence, letterhead, printed text: “James O’Shaughnessy Counselor in Advertising 285 Madison Avenue – Room 1406 Telephone Ash. 1049 – Ash. 1050 New York”. Correspondence, body, typewritten text: “Mr. H.H. Gunning 322 Machen Street Toledo, Ohio Dear Harry: Your letter of June 15 is so full of reminders of the old days, and the pictures make a tremendously interesting collection. This is the best batch of things that interest me that has fallen into my hands in many days. The old Antwerp photograph is such a good likeness that I would have recognized all four of the crowd without the names, even though I didn’t remember that “Homesick” Byles carried a cane. In the group shown in the Buffalo Bill picture I don’t remember any except Major Burke whom I knew very well in later years. I am wondering if M. Coyle is not meant for Hugh Coyle. The snapshots are good. I am surprised of course to see that you have a son who is now so much of a man. It does not seem long since I saw him as a little toddler. Even your younger son I see has grown up to full size. The Count of Geldermalsen certainly holds his own in fine style – in fact, you don’t look much older here than you do in the Antwerp picture. I am just arranging now to take my wife and two older girls to the advertising convention in Berlin, leaving July 30. I am sending my boy over to spend the summer in Europe. He is working his way over and back. I am wondering whether I will get a chance to go over into Holland again. I had a bad piece of misfortune when I was there five years ago – we missed the road after leaving Zaltbommel. That’s where the rowdy boys wanted to start a riot because we didn’t give them a dubbeltje for showing us how to find the dinky ferry boat which swung on a rope. The ferry boat is the same ferry boat with the same rope. After we crossed the river we took the wrong road and missed Geldermalsen. I went to the town where we posted the city hall and was disappointed to find that the market place wasn’t built up and that beautiful dead wall had a building flat up against it.” Handwritten text: “The thugs referred to by Jim took place in 1894 when he was working for me HHG Kindly return when read -“.

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Correspondence, letterhead, printed text: “James O’Shaughnessy Counselor in Advertising 285 Madison Avenue – Room 1406 Telephone Ash. 1049 – Ash. 1050 New York”. Correspondence, body, typewritten text: “Mr. H.H. Gunning 322 Machen Street Toledo, Ohio Dear Harry: Your letter of June 15 is so full of reminders of the old days, and the pictures make a tremendously interesting collection. This is the best batch of things that interest me that has fallen into my hands in many days. The old Antwerp photograph is such a good likeness that I would have recognized all four of the crowd without the names, even though I didn’t remember that “Homesick” Byles carried a cane. In the group shown in the Buffalo Bill picture I don’t remember any except Major Burke whom I knew very well in later years. I am wondering if M. Coyle is not meant for Hugh Coyle. The snapshots are good. I am surprised of course to see that you have a son who is now so much of a man. It does not seem long since I saw him as a little toddler. Even your younger son I see has grown up to full size. The Count of Geldermalsen certainly holds his own in fine style – in fact, you don’t look much older here than you do in the Antwerp picture. I am just arranging now to take my wife and two older girls to the advertising convention in Berlin, leaving July 30. I am sending my boy over to spend the summer in Europe. He is working his way over and back. I am wondering whether I will get a chance to go over into Holland again. I had a bad piece of misfortune when I was there five years ago – we missed the road after leaving Zaltbommel. That’s where the rowdy boys wanted to start a riot because we didn’t give them a dubbeltje for showing us how to find the dinky ferry boat which swung on a rope. The ferry boat is the same ferry boat with the same rope. After we crossed the river we took the wrong road and missed Geldermalsen. I went to the town where we posted the city hall and was disappointed to find that the market place wasn’t built up and that beautiful dead wall had a building flat up against it.” Handwritten text: “The thugs referred to by Jim took place in 1894 when he was working for me HHG Kindly return when read -“.